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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 20. 1903.

MISCELLANEOUS. VIEW OF FIVE OF THE GRADE CROSSINGS WHICH CITY WISHES TO REMOVE. SL MISCELLANEOUS. TherewillbeaBig WEBSTER CO. A.

A. JEWELERS, 440 FULTON 5T, Announce (cr Pali tc'cl an I n-usually Cliuicc Assortment of DIAMOND JGWELRV. GOLD JEWELRY, WATCHES, STERLING HLVER and FANCY GOODS. Cassidy's Politics Factory Good Order and Turning Out Candidates. in FUSION PRODUCT.

UNCERTAIN. We re gUavs to acc-jt old goid and Uver in exchange cr to for czsh. demand for Evans Ale This Season. Dealers should make their arrangements NOW to insure best service. c.

h. nv.s SONS, Xew York City WholeMlle Depot. 127 Hud no II M. Brewery and Bottlinff Works. Hudson.

N. Y. Rival Workshop's Machinery Not Yet Adjusted, but Its Advertising Well Beguu Already. KEHOE WHIPPED 'EH BGTil; COFFEY AHO RSGUUGHLIV. DR.

WATERS' NEW ASSISTANT. Tzvrtt. 5 I 1 I I I lr OYSTER PLANTERS BIG LOSSES. S.fe I Jacob Cckers Fears His, as a Result of fOL SraFi 1 A 4 Wednesday's Stoim, May rrUTlj BeacWOO. I Sfcfi.

rl WJlHs? 4 Sayville. I. September 19-It Is feared y- -P -IfflMwSuEi rJSv YlSSSa1 the storm of thls weck ha8 Banled the PfP flP fll ster beds In the Great South Bay. causing l-ff out inspecting their beds yesterday, and they CT'Zl5 report that where they had excellent dredging previous to the storm, nothing but sand could be found on the oyster grounds. K.

if3 Jacob Oekers, who as more than 125,000 i bushels of fine Blue Points laid down, says felI tEjTSg CC7NEJV JJpflrH-EjvifvrD Trains comb AKOUND CUKVfJ INTO BATH 1 of BATH BEIACH (Special to the Eagle.) Long Island City, September 19 As the time for the county, borough and Assembly district conventtona draws nearer the party leaders are getting down to the business of completing their slates, and already there begins to loom out of the misty future a plainer outline of the ticket to be presented to the voters In November next. There is no doubt as to the naming of Joseph Cassldy to head the Democratic ticket as Borough President. There is likewise no doubt that every candidate named on the county ticket must nave me approval of Mr. Cassldy, who is also chairman of the County Committee and in control of the party in Queens more absolutely than any other man has been in the history of the county. It is now thoroughly agreed by those near the chief and in his confidence that Joseph E.

Meyerrose will be the candidate for Sheriff and be is looked upon as the man to bring out a large German vote from tho Ridgewood and Maspeth sections of the Town of Newtown for the strengthening of the whole ticket. William Rasquin of Flushing, municipal Justice of Queens, is now spoken of more freely than ever before as the candidate for county Judge and it looks as though the inspiration for the talk came from headquarters, so freely is the prediction made about Borough Hall, right under the shadow of President Cassldy. It is also predicted that John Eldcrt of Jamaica will be the candidate for clerk. He is ready and willing to "put up" freely for the campaign and to get out and work in his shirtsleeves for the success ot the whole ticket. The offices of Sheriff and County Clerk of Queens are said to be worth from $20,000 to $25,000 each per year and they will be hotly contested for.

Assemblyman Joseph Sullivan will be renominated for the First Assembly District, Long Island City and Newtown, and in this district it is generally conceded that a nomination is equivalent to an election by a mujority of anywhere from 3,500 to 5,000. Edward Allen, a lawyer ot Flushing Town, is slated as candidate for the Second Assem bly District, comprising Flushing and Ja maica towns, as successor to Assemblyman F. James McElroy of Flushing and James Smyth of Jamaica, both popular young men, are also out for the nomination, but It is generally predicted that they will have to wait for their turn. Alderman Nehrbauer, Long Island City, will nc4 be renominated, as he has not been as useful to the district as was expected when he was nominated for the position. Thomas Creem and Joseph Geiser are both mentioned as candidates for this place on the ticket.

Alderman McCarty will be renominated for the Newtown district. There is more uncertainty as to who will head the Fusion ticket, as there has not yet been any concerted action on the part of the leaders of the various organizations Republicans, Citizens Union and Independent Democrats. The latest name put forward for borough president is Frederick W. Dun-ton, tho last supervisor of the town of Jamaica previous to consolidation, and at one time chairman of the board. Mr.

Dunton, who Is also well known aa a son-in-law of the late Austin Corbin, was the father of the siiendid macadam road system of the town of Jamaica, and It was owing to his energetic work In the hoard that the town secured the asphalt and brick pavement of Fulton street and Jamaica avenue, the finest highway to-day on Long Island. Mr. Dunton Is highly popular In every town outside of Long Island City. Among the other names that have been prominently put forward for the position are F. D.

Haas Simonson, one of the heaviest taxpayers of the town of Newtown and for a number of years the energetic president of the Board of Education of Queens. The names of Messrs. Clonln of Long Island City and John Sutphin of Jamaica, who was for thirty years the efficient county clerk of Queens, are also mentioned. There is no doubt as to the renomlnatlon of County Judge Harrison L. Moore, and Ms name, it Is said, will be a tower of Btrength to the whole ticket.

Judge Moore has served upon the court bench twelve years, and his friends say he has proven one of the ablest Jurists the. county has ever had in this position. He Is also popular and affable. County Clerk James Ingram is also reasonably sure of a renomlnation. Under Sheriff Joseph Bennett Is freely named as the successor on the ticket to Sheriff Joseph de Bragga.

Thero Is as yet very little talk as to Assembly nominations on the Fusion ticket, and less yet as to Aldermanic nominees, although it is understood that Alderman Will-lam T. James of Flushing and Henry Wll-lett of Jamaica will be renominated without opposition. The Democrats will make no definite plans of campaign until after the convention. The Citizens Unionists havo leased the first floor of the Bernhard Court Building, on Fulton street, Jamaica, formerly occupied by the Doran Cafe, for headquarters In that town and have established headquarters also at 126 Main street, Astorln. Ten headquar ters are to be established by the Citizens Union "In various parts of the borough, and a lively campaign Inaugurated as soon as the city ticket Is named, without waiting for the local nominees to be named.

MBS. WALTZ, NOVELIST, DEAD. Louisville, September 19 Mrs. Elizabeth Cherry Walts, the novelist and literary editor of the Courier Journal, died to-day. She came from Columbus, Ohio, four years ago.

Young Leader Who Wrested Red Hook Frcm Conflicting Democratic Lenders. SPENT HIS LAST CENT IN FIGHT. Declares He'3 ns Regular as Anybody and Expects to Keep Grip on i Fractious 9th A. D. James J.

Kehoe, Assemblyman, saloon Keeper, end all-nrrund good fellow. Is now the name to conjurp with in the Ninth Assembly District. Red Hook in its turbulent scd picturesque history has hod many popu lar idols, but none has ever started out on his political career under such favorable auspices as has this plain, unassuming man, who a year ago was practically unknown out-aide of the election district in which he liven and who, yet completely routed both the ftcLaughlin and the Coffey forces at the primaries on Tuesday last in one of the bitterest contests for the leadership that the Ninth Assembly District has ever known. Kehoe is a man of slight education, and there are those who say that he knows too little about the practical same of politics to last for any length of time as leader of a district that chafes under peaceful Influences, and the constituency of which Is almost as polyglot ns that over on the east fide of Manhattan over w.llch Bis Tim Sullivan rules with the power of an emperor. To this argument, Kclioe's friends and he has many of these reply that It cannot be raid of any man who made such a fight against such overwhelming odds as did Kehoe at the last primaries, that he is unfamiliar with the practical side of polities.

Arrayed gainst him in the contest for the leadership on the one hand, was the regular Demo- James J. Kehoe, Democratic LcaJr Ninth Amemb'y District. eratic organization's choice. Senator James Henry JlcCabe, and on the other the man who had absolute control of the election machinery with all the patronage that goes vith It. Added to this, circumstances which alone seemed to he a great handicap to Kehoe at the start, was the fact that some of Kehoe's most Influential friends in the fight against William O'Donnell, successor to ex-Senator Collcy.

in the leadership of the district, a year ago, were this year with John Hennessy, the committee member of the district, the third contestant In the triangular fight, who also was with Kehoe In the fight o' VM-l. "How, the face of these odds against hlra, can Kehoe win?" was the cry a few days before the primaries took place. The faction assorted that the fact that Kehoe and Hennessy were against each tiihi augured well for a McCabe victory apd the HrntiPssy people declared that with McCabe ami Kehoe. next-door neighbors, Ashling it out in on" end of the district, Hen-ressy would sweep all before him in the other end nnrt carrv the day. How fnr the calculations "of both the McCabe and the.

Hennessy factions went wrong was shown by the result of the primaries, when Kehoe won out by a majority of about 130. The was surprising to many. It is a fact few. save his own most sanguine support-rs. expected that Kehoe would win and most disinterested persons in the district and politicians on the outside whe took any interest in the struggle, expected that MeCahe.

backed as he was by the Wlllouehhy street organlza; ion. would carry the district without any trouble, and the result was so i lotc that even now Dr. Mc-t'ebe's friends assert tliat if he had entered the contest earlier nothing could have pro-vented him from succeeding to the leadership. That Kehoe Is popular among a certain Class of the people of the district cannot be gainsaid, and it was this popularity, more than anything else, more than outside influence, more even than the liberal use of money, vihirh is a strong factor in all political conirsis In 'h Ninth Assembly District, that enabled him to carry the district and demonstrates strength ns a vote geitir. in response to a query of an Kag re- i porter at his home, lnR Pioneer si reel whirr, Is in the heart of Red Hook, the oilier nirjht, as to how he did it, AHseniblvman Kehoe; replied: "I did It throup-h the assistance 0f n.v friends who stood loyally by n.e.

and then' I had the people with ire. Mv opponents' thought thai they had me hnrleci, and An all appearances I was a dend one. Bui I roused myself and climbed, hand over hand, i out of the grave to hich they had consigned me. and when the roper time came showed my enemies that there was si ill some life left In Kehoe. Von can tell them now that Kehoe Is a long stayer, that he never quits, and that nothing will hold him once he gets started." Some one.

commenting on Kehoe's victory, has remarked that the lender of the Ninth has an engaging personality. He doesn't show it In conversation. He Is a pleasant ort of fellow, is big ar.d strong, and Impresses one as being a pice sort of chap, who hasn't much force or enterprise. He Is Simple and unaffected in his ways. Is ready to see his friends at all times, and as yet hasn't bcKun, to stand on ceremony.

He doesn't appear like a man who would easily Franklin Boyd Edwards Engaged to Be Superintendent of Young Feople'a Work. Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church is to have another man added to Its corps of workers. The Rev. Dr. Waters has had as assistant pastor the Rov.

W. A. George, and as minister's assistant Miss Ida V. Joni. The work of these associates is now to ba supplemented by tho employment of Frank lin Boyd Edwards.

He is to be superin tendent of the Young People's work. The Young People of the church have been reorganized along broad lines and the work will include Bible study as well as literary study 'and athletic and social life. The spirit in the whole movement will bo the new assistant. Mr, Edwards is a direct descendant of the celebrated Jonathan Edwards, a na tive of Lisle, this state, and a graduate ot Williams College For a number of year3 he has been closely identified with the Young Men's Christian Association work in colleges. He has for some seasons been the leader at the Young Men's conventions at North- field and Pinehurst, North Carolina.

He Is an athlete, a scholar, a social leader and is regarded as one of the most successful winners of young people to the religious life in the country. The Tompkins Avenue people are rejoicing over haying secured Mr. Edwards. DEAD. Mrs.

Charles Greenhalgh's Retriever Was Thirteen Years OAd; Came of Prize Winning Stock. Merrick, L. September 19 An incident which terminated the life of a dog of celebrated lineage and occuned at the Merrick Camp Grounds a few days ago, when Mrs. Charles Greenhalgh of 1C St. Andrews place.

Brooklyn, had her pet dog Toodles, aged 13 years, killed to end its surterings rrom asthma. Toodles was a wen Drea emaie retriever and had been owned since her puppy days by Mrs, Greenhalgh, who purchased the dog at the Madison Gquaro Garden show In 1880. Her mother won the blue ribbon that year. The tiny dog was carried home In Mr. Groenhalgh's pocket.

Tood'-a' mother and father were both Englisti urea dogs and both spaniels, her mother being a water spaniel and her father a cocker spaniel. Toodles was a very bright dog, and soon learned many wonderful tricks and displayed almost human affection for her owner. Mrs. Greenhalgh and her husband looked upon Toodles almost as a child and gave her every care. Some time ago the dog becamo ill with asthma and everything was done to relieve her sufferings.

Age was against her, however, and it was deemed best to end her life, which was humanely done by the use of chloroform. PRIZES AT DONKEY PARTY. One a Woman's Gold Watch; Another the Whip Used in a Famous Turf Event. Far Rockaway, L. September 19 One of the most pleasant social affairs given in Far Rockaway in a long time was the donke? party at the residence of Mr.

and Mrs. Rob ert Angarola, at Sheridan boulevard and Carleton avenue, a few evenings ago. The evening was spent in music, song and dancing, and at a seasonable hour supper was served. The prize winners in tho donkey game were as follows: First prlie, a woman's gold watch, by Miss Mabel McEvoy; second, the whip used on Hamburg Bell by Jockey Fuller in tho Futurity race, Miss Florence McEvoy; booby prize, an exact reproduction of the famous Temple Cup, Kris Kringle Dnlton. During the evening songs were rendered by Emll Wcsthouse and Harold Angarola, and Jockey Grover Cleveland Fuller and Robert Angarola executed a buck dance.

Tho Misses Helen Angarola and Florence McEvoy did a cake walk in clever fashion. Among those present were: Fertteant and Mrs. lolin MeKlrvey. Missel Oievr. May Rod Anna McKirvey, land Fuller.

Charles Andersim. Sergeant ami Mrs. Charles Slrlpp. the Misses Anal and Mabel Strlpp, Mr. and Mrs.

John MeF.vey, tlie Misses Mattel, Florence, Anna and Jeitni't MeKvnv, Mr. and Mrs. J'hn Slrlpp. Mr. and Mrs.

Kmll Wcsthouse. Mr. ttnil Mis. William I'. -hoc.

Mr. and Mrs. E. .1. Kellls.

the Misses Jennie. Mamie, Margie and T.oretia tlre.n. Ktlf Minnie lialton, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Ansarola, tho Misses Helen.

Jessie ami Marguerite Aiiftamla. ltobert, Harold and Genrcc Anstinda. BAKER GOES BANKRUPT. Martin Maus Files Petition in Federal Court. Several petitions In bankruptcy were filed In the Federal Court yesterday, anions them that of Martin Maus, baker, at 100 DeKalb avenue.

The Maus establishment was formerly located on Fulton street, opposite the Orpheum Theater. It was known throughout Brooklyn while conducted, quite a number of years ago, by the father of the present proprietor. After the death of his father. Martin Maus continued the business and as long a ha remained at the same Bite did a nourishing' business. Later on he sold the site at a high price and moved to the DeKalb avenue location.

Liabilities are 3.S26, with assets of $3S1. Pantaleone Damato of 919 Atlantic avenue has filed a bankruptcy petition in tho United States District Court, alleging liabilities at with no assets. Adelaide F. Franklin, no occupation, residing at 424A Halsey street, has filed a similar petition. The nubilities are $5,955, ail unsecured claims.

A hundred worth of household goods scheduled as assets nro claimed to be exempt. JUDGE SAVES SON, BUT WILL New Orleans. September 19 Judge Fred King of the Civil District Court and a brother of Miss King, the authoress, wr.o struck by a runaway team and, It is relieved, fatally injured. He saved h's I't-year-old son from Injury by pushing nun of danger. ROPERTY owners and residents of Flatbush and Prospect Park South, along the line of the Brighton Beach division of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, on which changes will soon be made to comply with the grade crossing law, are eagerly awaiting some definite aution by the Grade Crossing Commission, which alone has full power to decide what form the proposed improvement will take.

From good authority It has been learned that the officials of the local trolley system are bent upon building an embankment, and plans to this effect are said to have been perfected, but the residents of the territory through which the line passes nro vigorously opposed to the proposition and havo taken concerted action to prevent Its being carried out. Meetings of protest have been held and monster petitions, bearing the names of at least 97 per cent, of the residents, have been sent to the Grade Crossing Commission, calling Its attention to the damage to the Interests of the property holders that will follow the construction of an embankment, and asking that some other plan be adopted to comply with the law. The petitions of the protesting properly owners is now In the hands of Louis Beer, president of the Grade Crossing Commission. Mr. Beer, when seen by an Eagle reporter, stated that.

Just as soon as possible, the commission would call a meeting, at which people of Flatbush and the other sections would be given a hearing on the matter. He adled that preliminary plans for the changes in the road had been filed by the engineers ot the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, but that the commission could take no action on them until It received a copy of the plans adopted by the Long Island Railroad Company, which must also change its grade at the point where it crosses the Brighton Beach line, in the neighborhood of Manhattan Terrace. "There Is no reason why the people should worry themselves over this matter," said Mr. Beer. "The commission will give them all a hearing; In fact, we want them to give us their views on the subject and assist us in coming to some decision.

We represent the people in this matter and are anxious to do everything possible to conserve their Interests. One thing of which I am positive isthat there will be no elevated structure. succumb to "swelled head" and his friends say that his recent triumph will not change him a bit. that he will be the same "Jimmy" Kehoe now that he has become a figure of local prominence in the political world, the same as he always was. Kehoe Is about 41 years of age and has been working for his living since he was 11 years of age.

He started to work In a hat factory and was earning $4 a week before he was 12 years old. When he became bigger and stronger he got employment as a teamster, and teamster he was until he went Into the saloon business. He learned his first lessons in politics behind the bar of the saloon of former Assemblyman John J. Cain, and the friends he made there stood by him when he became an aspirant for the leadership of the district so long held by the lifelong friend of his former employer, ex-Senator Michael J. Coffey.

"I was up against the hardest proposition that ever faced any man In my fight." said Kehoe the other night. "The other side did everything possible to beat me. McCahe men and Hennessy men went around the district trying to find out the names of the men I was going to put on my ticket, and letters were sent to friends of mine who have known me for years, asking them to vote against me. I was Just as good an organization man as Senator McCabe. but the organization wouldn't trust me.

showed them that If the organization wouldn't trust me. the people of the district would. I spent every dollar that I had In this fight." It having teen reported that Under Sheriff James Dunne of the Third Assembly District, which adjoins the Ninth, had helped Kehoe financially In his fight, tho new leader of the Ninth was asked If this was so. "Neither Mr. Dunne nor any one else outside this district had anything to do with my fight," Kehne replied.

"What money was spent to defray the expenses of my campaign was spent by myself and I got no financial assistance from any one, and you can't make that too plain. I am going to be the leader of the district, and I am going to act with the organization. I'm a Democrat first of all. and this is a Demoerntle district." A friend of Kehoe Fald yesterday that the latter hatl to mortgage Mb house a few days before the primaries came off to obtain money with which to carry on his campaign, and another friend said the night after the primaries found Kehoe "dead broke." Nevertheless, his opponents In the district openly assert that Dunne had a hand in Kehoe's election and that the latter will he the real powpr behind the throne In the Ninth Assembly District. Kehoe's election does not mean that there will not be another contest for the leader-shin of the district, and It Is reported already that both the Mef'abe and Hennessy factions are preparing for another fight at.

the March primaries. These two factions both polled a larger combined vote than Kehoe, and a union of thplr forces at the next primaries would result In all probability in Kehoe's defeat. The latter, however, has no apprehension on that score and announces that he will be ready to fight back at the first sign of rebellion against bis leadership. It Is worth while noting that at the primaries on Tuesday last, Kehne carried his own election district by only one vote, while he carried the district In which Senator Mc- f'nbp lives bv twenty-two. Senator McCabe lives directly across the street from Asscm-blvman Kehoe.

It Is possible that Kehoe will not go bnek to the Leglrlnture and there Is talk to the effect the' one of the young men who netlve-ly supnorted him will be nominated for the Assembly in hie place, although Kehoe, of course, can have the nomination If he wants It. It Is said, however, that he will devote all his time to the leadership and to the building up of hU political fences against a possible attack of his opponents. A PUBLIC DEBATE. The Central Young Men's Christian Association Literary Society will hold a public debate at the society's rooms. Fulton street, on Saturday evening, September 26, at 8 A SHIRT WAIST DANCE.

The Twelve O. G. will give a shirt waist dance at the Pyker Heights Club House on Friday evening, September 23. feel confident that when we have heard from both sides the matter will be adjusted satisfactorily to all." Those who are familiar with the matter aro firm in the opinion that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company is determined to have an embankment, and that it will make a bitter fight before It will agree to the proposition to depress its tracks. The plati of the company is to have a sodded embankment, on which four sets of tracks will be laid, two of which will be used by the regular trolley service and the other two for motor express trains.

The motor trains will be used on the fast express service whl-j'n the company proposes to introduce and the trolley cars will be used for local service, making stops at all the stations. The four-track road scheme is well thought of by the company and It believes that the suburbanites will take kindly to it, as it means fast service at all times and does away with the necessity of the motor trnins stopping at every station along the line. The company Is opposed to depressing Its tracks, maln'y for the reason that It will cost more than to build an embankment. The protesting residents contend that the road can be depressed and that this is th3 most feasible plan to abolish the grade crossings. They have gone over the route between Church and Newklrk avenues and have received the expert opinion of an engineer that the work of depressing can be NIEMANN A CANDIDATE.

District Attorney of Nassau May Be Nominated for Justice of the Supreme Court. Mlneola, L. September 19 At the coming Democratic Judiciary convention, to be held in Brooklyn on Monday, September 23, to nominate a candidate for Supreme Court Judge In the Second Judicial District, It is regarded as a certainty that the name of District Attorney James P. Niemann of Nassau County will be presented. Mr.

Niemann has been urg.d, not only by his friends on Long Island, but by legal associates in New York City and elsewhere, to permit his name to be presented at tho convention and he has consented. In addition to the Nassau County delegation, ho has been assured of support from other counties in the district. Those who are advocating his nomination say that his long practi at the bar and his experience as District Attorney, together with his high personal James P. Niemann, District Attorney of Nassau County. character, which has made him very popular, amply qualify him for the Supreme Court bench.

Mr. Niemann was born in New York City In 1S5S and studied law In the office of Drown, Hall Vanderpool. He was admitted to tho bar in ami to the United States District and Circuit Courts in 1SS4, and was associated with A. Oakey Hall In the general practice of law in New York. He Is a member of the State Bar Association and Nassau County nar Association and has been in active practice for twenty-three years.

For the last sixteen years Mr. Niemann has been a resident of LynbrooU and was active in the formation of Nassau County. He has always been a Democrat, in polities and as such had the honor of being in ISM elected as the first District Attorney of Nassau County, a Republican stronghold. jn 1901 he was re-elected by an overwhelming majority and he has made an- official record second to no District Attorney In the state, his friends say. Mr.

Niemann has been helpful in making Nassau County clean and progressive and feels much pride in the new county, which contains the homes of many representative men. Ills friends lay much stress on the statement that Mr. Niemann can poll In Nassau OCjEjAcT N. "TOOTS' 3 IjSJVVNr) .13 done with little trouble. In their petitions the residents point out that their section has been built up with beautiful homes and that the elevation of the tracks would be a detriment to property and result In a big depreciation in values.

and Suffolk counties 5.000 more votes than a candidate from another section of the district. When the Republicans carried Nassau County for Roosevelt In 1898 by 1.500. Mr. Niemann was elected on the Democratic ticket to his first term as District Attorney. FREE DELIVERY FOR 2D WARD.

Newtown Members of Bepublican County Committee Will Demand It Flushing the Clearing House. Long Island City, L. September 19 The Queens County Republican Committte held a short but harmonious session last in the Lincoln Club house. It was an executive session and little of the proceedings were made public. William 11.

Wniie offered a resolution continuing the conference committee of five" and giving them power to negotiate with representatives of the Citizens Union, Shtchan Democracy and Independent Democrats upon the question of a Fusion ticket. The lie-publican committee is composed of George Kippergcr, Joseph H. DeBragga, George II. Sweeney. Leander B.

Faber and George Bennett, representing the five wards in the order named. The committee had a short interview Monday night with the Citizens Union committee, and reported back, and It was on their report that Mr. White based his resolution. The Citizens Union has opened headtjuartcrs at 05 Borden avenue, this city, and Monday right there will be conference thero of representatives of all organizations opposed to tho regular Democratic organization headed by Borough President Cassldy. After tho County Committee had adjourned tho members from Newtown held a conference.

They decided to take up the matter of free delivery in the Second Ward and push It to a finish. The committee men stated that they were held up last yar by the statement that they had been elected by a fluke, but that this year they were fleeted without dukes, and would soon make a demand upon former Congressman Storm for free delivery In Newtown, with the Flushing post office as the clearing house. One of the committeemen stated that they would not lake no for an answer, Dut that free delivery must be inaugurated In the ward, and they would not rest until they won. Some of the members of the County Committee talked politics, and it seemed to he in the air that John H. Sutphin of Jamaica and Jamos E.

Clonln of Long Island City were being considered in connection with ihe Fusion nomination fof Borough President. Mr. Clonln is a Democrat who has never sought public office. He 1s president of tho Astoria Taxpayers and very popular in this city. CELEBRATED SILVER WEDDING.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Keller of 231 Adelphl etreot celebrated last Tuesday evening the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage, assisted by their two children, Arthur D. and Miss II.

E. Keller, and a large company of relatives and friends. The parlors of the Keller home were handsomely decorated for the occasion. There was an enjoyable musical programme, Miss Mae Foder and Miss E. Ostrander contributing vocal selections, while Mrs.

W. J. Baugher presided at the piano. Mr. and Mrs.

Keller pledged anew the vows they took a quarter of a century ago. the Rev. E. Cooper officiating. The bride's father gave her away for the second, Those present were: Mr.

and Mrs. Antcnen, Mr. antl Mrs. G. M.

Houton. Mr. and Mrs. V. IWlwnrthy, Mrs.

V. .1. llauRber, Mr. ant! Mr. Marlon Dodd, Mr.

and Mrs. W. it. IjonmiKh, Mr. anil Mrs.

C.enrne Fuehrer, Mr. tint Mrs. Thendere Fuehrer, Mr and Mrs. Fuehrer. Fuehrer, Oeorpre Fuehrer, Mif ICthel Fuehrer.

Miss tlradvs Fuehrer, Mist. Mae Fe.spT, Mr. and Mrs. Hetlel. MrH.

T. I ernian, Miss le'iira Hover-man Henry Hnvertnitn. Merman Hf'Verman. Mr. and Mis.

A. Kr.t. Mr. and Mrs. H.

Knaup. Mr. and Mrs. A. Keller.

Mips It. Kidler. Arthur 1). Keller. Mr.

and Mrs. ti. t.iepenard. Mr. and Mrs.

s. Lewis. MlfS T. Mundhenk. Miss E.

Ostramler. Mrs. William Patterson. 'Miss E. Patterson.

Mr. and A. Ronalds, Mr. and Mrs. II.

F. Uncer, Mien Edna Smith Mr. and Mrs. Snwyer. Miss F.

riprlnget, Miss C. Springer. Mr. and Mis. II, Hneprer.

Mrs. Trevz, Miss L. Treyz, S. U'andelt and Mrs. C.

Wllllbcrger. NEW DEAD MAN'S CURVE. If Time Has Its Way There Will Be a Serious Accident in Flatbush. The curve and Incline leading to the adjacent Prospect Park station of the Brighton Beach line of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system, by which trolley cars descend from the street, bids fair to achieve a first-class "dead man's curve" reputation, owing to the close proximity to tho south bound track of the Iron pillars supporting the bridge which the railroad corporation recently built across its tracks at Lincoln road. Although no fatalities have as yet occurred, thore have, it is said, been frequent accidents, conductors trying to collect fares and make their way along the crowded running boards of the cars, being the victims.

On Sunday Patrick Hall, a conductor, almost had his brains dashed out by his head coming in contact with one of the pillars. Hnl! was knocked from the car to the asphalt station pavement, the Injuries he sustained necessitating his removal to the Kings County Hospital. Ou tho same day snolher conductor Is snld to have been struck by one of the pillars, and swept from the car. During the preceding week two others are said to have been Injured in a similar manner, and one day last week holiday carloads of passengers bound for the seaside saw a conductor lying on the station walk Insensible and drenched In blood. He had been knocked from a ear through his body coming in contact with me of the pillars.

It Is said that the conductors of the trolley ars regard that section of the line as a regular man trap. An examination of the construction work of the bridge shows at a glance that the safety of the conductors can scarcely have been considered at all. On the side of the north bound track the rojv of pillars is plnced at a distance apparently sufficient to render such accidents unlikely, but on the side of the south bound track they are not more than two feet away and seem to have been placed there on purpose. To the lay observer it would seem that the pillars would answer the purpose of supports quite as well had they been placed Just back of tho station platform, which extends beneath the bridge. Instead of directly along Ihe edge of the platform.

This peculiar situation also makes It dangerous for the passenger who trios to board a moving car from the edge of the platform or a car which starts up suddenly. The underbody of Ihe bridge Itself presents a most dislointed appearance. It seems to have been built of odds and ends of elevated structural remnnnts, and the props and supports of the bridge appear to have been placed wnerever ine metal would fit in. The row of pillars along the north bound track if. only a few feet from the stone abutment which supports the superstructure at that end.

while the row of pillars which are likely to cost the life of a conductor at any time Is probably nrteen teci irom abutment on the opposite side. the After encircling the pl.tbe filling stage engage, mrnts In all parts of Knpland, Australia and China. William Peeley, husband of the lale actress. Reste Itenehlll, returned home at Deer Hill, Sayville, last evening. He was away ten months.

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